The developers of the Wise-Anderson Protocol for pelvic pain have observed that pelvic floor dysfunction has been resistant to medical treatment because of what the authors of the 6th edition of A Headache in the Pelvis called the tension-anxiety-pain-protective guarding cycle. This is a cycle in which chronic tension in the pelvic muscles–typically the result…

Patients who take medication for chronic pain rarely voluntarily stop taking their medications. However, a new study was published in the February 2015 issue of Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback that shows a third of patients using the Wise-Anderson Protocol voluntarily were able to stop taking their medications for their pelvic pain symptoms after six months.…